Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the present pace of things these survivors may in a generation 's time become a picturesque memory like the yeoman 's smock . |
| 2 | Today his advice might be : ‘ A man with a gun and word processor can make more money in a month than his lawyer can in a lifetime . ’ |
| 3 | I found an old coat thrown across a garbage can in a back alley . |
| 4 | But what we have to bear in mind of course er the f financial propriety of this council would in a sense have been very easy over the years if the labour party previously had trimmed its budget according to what we could all afford . |
| 5 | There is a belief that mild mental handicap may in a sense be inherited in a way that most severe mental handicaps are not , although public understanding would be to the contrary . |
| 6 | By running a £5 million overdraft , the court could in a way be construed as borrowing money to invest in works of art . |
| 7 | Nevertheless it does believe it is appropriate that the strategic thrust of the policy should be based on the premise that development proposals likely to be consid considered acceptable in the open countryside will in a sense represent the exception rather than the rule . |
| 8 | Yet however suspect may be the capacity of electors in general to vote responsibly and intelligently their right to make political choices must in a democracy be respected . |
| 9 | He would pick his way delicately , almost mincing , along the trail between the giant pine cones , planting his two-toed feet as delicately as the Queen Mother would in a field of cow pats . |